Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prince Henry of Hesse, 26, grandson of the late King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, speaks with the elegant inflection of European royalty in 31 nostalgically surrealist paintings on exhibit in the Carstairs Gallery. His theme: memories of his own fairy-tale childhood spent among crowned and sceptered relatives in castles, palaces and splendiferous watering places (he is also a great-grandnephew of the late Kaiser Wilhelm, a cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth...
...final story, "In the Cockpit" by Eric Wentworth, is a tale of the physical and emotional anguish encountered by a boy on a tuna fishing expedition. Wentworth has given his story a swift pace by emphasizing the boy's progressive exhaustion as he pulls a fish up from the sea. His passages on the boy's psychological reaction to his approaching failure often seem to break the continuity of the action unnecessarily and they add a pedestrian touch to the piece...
...Holmes is in tiptop legendary health today. He has not even been killed by the deadly fact that almost any modern writer of whodunits constructs stories far more ingeniously than Doyle did and sticks much closer to reality at the same time. On the contrary, it is the fairy-tale quality of his world that has kept Holmes alive: he wields his magic wand in a never-never land where all cops are laughable simpletons, all locks susceptible to the key of logic...
...ever awarded at Harvard) in less than six years, Davison settled down at the College as an instructor with vague notions of composing orchestral music. Encouraged by Dr. Karl Muck, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Davison composed his "Tragic Overture," an orchestral piece founded on Hawthorne's gruesome tale of Rappacini and the sacrifice of his daughter. Performed by the BSO, the overtime brought favorable reviews which praised Davison's "uncrring taste and exceeding skill in the handling of thematic material and the arrangement of orchestral color...
What Cocteau allowed to become trick photography in Orpheus he kept as normal-if extraordinarily clever-direction in Beauty. Working with Miss Day, and with Jean Marais as the Beast, the director made an elementary and familiar plot into a small triumph of mood and attitude: a fairy tale for the bigger kids. ROBERT J. SCHOENBERG